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Saint Gereon

sculpture of Saint Gereon; date unknown, aritst unknown; Church of Saint Gereon, Berkum, Wachtberglifte, Germany; photographed on 30 April 2010 by GFreihalter; swiped from Wikimedia Commons Also known as

Gerone

10 October

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Imperial Roman soldier. Martyred with 290 other Christians on order of emperor Maximian for refusing to sacrifice to pagan gods to obtain victory in battle.

beheaded c.304 in either Xanten or Bonn in Germany (records vary)
relics translated to Cologne, Germany

Pre-Congregation

Additional Information

Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
Lives of the Saints, by Father Francis Xavier Weninger
Saints of the Day, by Katherine Rabenstein

books
- Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Saints
- Oxford Dictionary of Saints, by David Hugh Farmer
- Sacred and Legendary Art, by Anna Jameson
- Saints and Their Attributes, by Helen Roeder

other sites in english
- Catholic Online

images
- Wikimedia Commons

sitios en español
- Martirologio Romano, 2001 edición

fonti in italiano
- Martirologio Romano, 2005 edition
- Santi e Beati
- Wikipedia

MLA Citation

“Saint Gereon“. CatholicSaints.Info. 22 December 2023. Web. 27 April 2024. <>